1 p.m. Prime Minister Doug Ford announced that he is accelerating the structure of a long-term care home at Humber River Hospital.
10:50 a.m. Ontario reported 33 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday.
9:30 a.m. Russia approved a coronavirus vaccine for use in tens of thousands of its citizens despite foreign concerns.
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9:19 p.m. BEFORE CHRIST. Scholars will not return to elegance on the scheduled September 8, as the provincial government considers a slower return.
Children will be welcome to elegance later in September week after reviewing the latest BC Disease Control Center rules and the school’s operational policies for COVID-19, Education Minister Rob Fleming said Tuesday.
“Organizing the restart week in a way that brings together staff groups for a few days before gradually welcoming the youth to make sure that all schools, the 1,500 in the province, are able to receive students is a good idea. , and that’s the technique we’re going to use,” he says.
No official date has been set for young people to return to school.
5:09 p.m. Quebec Prime Minister Francois Legault says he does not believe that a possible momentary wave of COVID-19 strikes as hard as the first in Canada’s most affected province.
Legault stated that many infections occurred in the first few weeks when inflamed workers brought the virus to long-term care homes and senior apartments without being dressed in proper protective equipment.
“If we have a wave at the moment, we’ll be much better prepared,” Legault told reporters in Mascouche, Quebec, on Tuesday.
And that staff will wear a mask when meeting with patients, which he said was not the case at the beginning of the pandemic and contributed to the 5,000 deaths in nursing homes. “I think we’ll be better placed for that,” he said.
16:25 The Pan American Health Organization has expressed reservations about reports that establishments in the region are negotiating to manufacture and distribute a new COVID-19 vaccine announced by Russia that has not yet been the subject of in-depth protection and efficacy trials.
The organization’s deputy director, Jarbas Barbosa, said Tuesday at an online news convention from Washington that any vaccine deserves to be thoroughly evaluated to make sure the product is effective.
In Brazil, the government of the state of Paraná said it is negotiating with the Russian embassy to help expand a vaccine opposed to COVID-19 and will hold a technical assembly on Wednesday with the Russian ambassador.
Nicaragua previously announced its goal of producing a Russian vaccine and on Monday, Vice President Rosario Murillo, wife of President Daniel Ortega, again said that the country will contact Russian establishments to produce and even export a COVID-19 vaccine.
Barbosa said the vaccine had not yet passed all the mandatory steps to go through the World Health Organization or the Pan American Health Organization. He said global fitness officials were in talks with Russian officials to review their knowledge and clinical trials.
“It is only after this review, with transparency to this knowledge and all the information, that we will take a position,” he said.
4:25 p.m. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu issued an executive order requiring a mask to be wearing at scheduled meetings of more than a hundred people.
Sununu, a Republican, had resisted calls to impose the use of a mask to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. With Tuesday’s order, the six New England states have some kind of mask mandate.
In general, they are much more restrictive than New Hampshire and require that a mask be wearing in public when social estrangement is possible.
The order will be tested later this month at annual Laconia Motorcycle Week, which regularly attracts thousands of people to the state. Sununu recently formed an organization of protection runners at the event, which will take place from 22 to 30 August.
4:25 p.m. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, the first governor of the country to test for coronavirus, said he donated plasma to other recovering patients with the virus.
Stitt says he recently made a donation to an Oklahoma Blood Institute center in Enid. Convalescence plasma is sought as a possible remedy for the virus. Tulsa County commissioner Karen Keith was inflamed with the virus and says she donated plasma.
Oklahoma reported 44728 shown coronavirus and 618 deaths.
4:16 p.m., Windsor will reopen “cautiously” this week, the city’s mayor said Tuesday, adding that he would hesitate to request more resources if local COVID-19 instances increase.
Mayor Drew Dilkens said the entire Windsor-Essex area, which was left behind by the economic reopening due to virus outbreaks on local farms, was relieved as she was ready to move on to Stage 3 on Wednesday.
Local businesses have suffered from prolonged lag and the city has a budget vacuum of $30 million due to the pandemic, Dilkens said.
“No one needs to be in the last place,” he says. “When you’re the last to move forward, there’s a highlight in you. I know that by talking to other entrepreneurs here in our community, they’re struggling.
On Monday, Prime Minister Doug Ford announced that Windsor-Essex will move to Stage 3 of the reopening, all of Ontario will have made progress toward the final component of the province’s pandemic recovery plan.
4:04 p.m. The Director of Public Health says Canada will commit to obtaining an approved vaccine for COVID-19.
Dr. Theresa Tam says she has complete confidence in The Health Canada vaccine approval process.
She says she is cautiously sure this will happen soon, but says security will not be compromised to get there.
His words come as Russia on Tuesday the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine.
Its deputy, Dr. Howard Njoo, says the Russian product has everything from discovery to exceptionally immediate approval.
He says there is no genuine data on the protection or efficacy of the Russian vaccine or on the number of other people involved in the tests.
4:02 p.m. New Brunswick reported a case of COVID-19 on Tuesday, ending a day out of four without new cases of the disease.
The case concerned a user of about 40 years in the Fredericton area, with no main points on the source of the infection.
Prime Minister Blaine Higgs said at a press convention that while there is a pause in the degrees of infection in the province, citizens do not have to look far to see that the spread can erupt quickly, and noted the patience of cases in western Canada.
Tuesday’s new case has recently been active in the province.
The other active bodies met last week, all involving transient foreign personnel who arrived in Moncton and soon began to isolate themselves.
Dr. Jennifer Russell, the province’s leading medical director of health, said that as of Monday, physical distance in seated public positions can be reduced to one metre, and a mask is worn at all times.
Restaurants and bars must impose a distance of two metres.
2:08 p.m. Lawyers who defy the Ban on Newfoundland and Labrador argue that the policy is arbitrary and violates the Charter’s mobility rights.
The closing arguments began Tuesday in the Provincial Supreme Court as part of a challenge to restrictions imposed last spring to restrict the spread of COVID-19.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Kim Taylor, a resident of Halifax, allege that measures restricting access to citizens and staff violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and are not within the jurisdiction of the province.
Taylor’s attorney, John Drover, said in the St. John’s courtroom that Newfoundland and Labrador are the first province to close their borders to other Canadians, adding that further investigation into mobility rights is needed in Canada.
He said the policy contrary to the Constitution Law and the Charter.
14:07 Lebanon has recorded a record number of cases and deaths from coronavirus as the number of patients in the country who experienced a fatal explosion last week.
Cases in Lebanon have increased since early July, when Beirut International Airport was reopened and the blockade eased.
The Health Ministry said Tuesday that another 307 people tested positive, raising the total number of cases recorded to 7,121 since the first case reported at the end of February. The ministry reported seven new deaths, bringing the total figure shown to 87.
Dr. Firas Abiad, ceo of Rafik Hariri University Hospital, told The Associated Press last week that the number of cases is expected to increase in the coming days after the August 4 explosion that killed and wounded thousands of people. He said overcrowding in hospitals, where thousands of injured people were rushed, would increase the number.
14:07 The regional government of the Spanish Canary Islands has said that more than 85% of new coronavirus infections detected in the past week occurred among other people under the age of 30.
The regional head of Health, Blas Trujillo, said the new instances of COVID-19 were the result of a recreational time and a circle of family gatherings without social estrangement.
He says the steady occurrence of new cases (85 in the last 24 hours) can lead to an economically damaging blockade.
Although most young people were asymptomatic, tactile search needs overload the health care formula, and colleagues in other HIV-positive people will have to stay home.
2:07 p.m. New coronavirus in Italy highest until 412 on Tuesday.
Sicily had number 89 after 64 migrants tested positive at a detection centre. This brings to 73 the number of migrants in the centre of Pozzallo who are lately HIV-positive for the virus.
After weeks of new cases a average of 200 to 300, the new infections shown increase as more and more people during the summer, with others returning from beach vacation abroad with positive results and seasonal workers.
The total number of cases in Italy has reached more than 251,000. Six deaths were reported on Tuesday, with more than 35,000 deaths.
1:40 p.m. The Georgia School District has quarantined more than 800 academics for imaginable exposure to coronavirus since face-to-face training resumed last week, authorities said Tuesday.
The Cherokee County School District has also quarantined 42 since the beginning of the year on August 3, according to the knowledge posted through the district online. Located about 30 miles (58 kilometers) north of Atlanta, the district is home to more than 42,000 students.
The news of the quarantine came a day after Georgia’s governor, Brian Kemp, said that the reopening of some public schools amid the coronavirus outbreak was well received, with the exception of widely shared photographs of overcrowded academics without masks.
Viral images showed students’ status of appearance in the crowded hallways of North Paulding High School northwest of Atlanta and huddled in combination for first-day school photos at two of Cherokee County’s top schools, adding Etowah, which had 296 students and 8 quarantined members. . None of the scholars in the images were dressed in masks.
Democrats strongly opposed Kemp’s assessment that the reopening of schools was proceeding safely, blaming him and President Donald Trump for their failures.
Fifty students, teachers, and staff in the Cherokee County School District have tested positive for the virus so far, it’s not transparent if any of them have become inflamed at school.
1:34 p.m. It took six months of global to succeed in 10 million cases of coronavirus. It took just over six weeks for that number to double.
The global number of known COVID-19 infections exceeded 20 million on Monday, more than part of them in 3 countries: the United States, India and Brazil, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
The average number of new instances consistent with the day in the United States has declined in recent weeks, but remains more than 54,000, to approximately 59,000 in India and nearly 44,000 in Brazil.
The severe and sustained crisis in the United States, more than five million cases and 163,000 deaths, compared to the total of any country, has dismayed and surprised many others around the world, given the country’s vanilla clinical ingenuity and leadership over Europe and Asia. Prepare.
South Africa, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Russia and the Philippines have completed the maximum of 10 sensitive countries that contribute maximum new cases to the global count since July 22, according to an Associated Press investigation into Johns Hopkins’ knowledge on Monday.
1 p.m. Prime Minister Doug Ford announced that he is accelerating the structure of a long-term care home at Finch of Humber River Hospital in Toronto. The project, a component of the accelerated structure pilot program, will load 320 beds by the end of 2021. Mayor John Tory, who joined Ford in the ad, says the acceleration of the structure of long-term care homes to the “speed of war” is encouraging.
12:48 p.m. The mayor of Windsor, Ontario, says his city will continue cautiously with Stage 3 of the reopening and will request more resources if local instances accumulate in the coming weeks.
Drew Dilkens says he is sure that the drop in COVID-19 instances in the region during the following week allows for a reopening.
The Windsor-Essex area, which has been held back by farm shoots, will move to Stage 3 of the province’s reopening framework on Wednesday.
Local fitness reports that there are 131 active instances of COVID-19 in the network, 63 of them among agribusiness workers.
Medical Health Officer Dr. Wajid Ahmed said the estate took position on 38 of the region’s 176 farms.
Local fitness reports that five farms are still in hatching, as well as 4 production companies.
12:15 p.m. Florida reports 276 new coronavirus deaths, bringing the total number of deaths shown in the state to 8685.
The State Department of Health reported about 5,800 on Tuesday.
New deaths average seven days of deaths reported in Florida at 165, up from 185 a week ago. Texas recorded an average of 210 deaths last week.
The number of patients treated in Florida hospitals by coronavirus is 6729, 30% less than last month’s maximum of 9500.
12:15 p.m. A Kentucky congressman said he tested for antibodies to the coronavirus and planned to donate his plasma.
The Courier-Journal reports that AMERICAN Republican Thomas Massie commented last week on political commentator Glenn Beck’s radio show. Massie reported that he had a coronavirus and an antibody at the end of July and had obtained a positive result for the latter.
At least 11 members of Congress are known to have been screened for coronavirus.
Massie told Beck that he was “convinced” that he had the virus in January and described his poor health, fever, sore throat and low energy.
12:15 p.m. Mexico’s foreign minister said the government has reached agreements with 3 corporations to conduct complex clinical trials of coronavirus vaccines in Mexico this fall.
Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Mexico had memorandums of understanding with Janssen Pharmaceuticals of the United States and Chinese corporations Cansino Biologics and Walvax Biotechnology. According to him, the agreements would guarantee Mexico a vaccine if they are effective.
Ebrard said the trials would take place between September and January. In total, Mexico is in talks with 15 potential testing companies. Mexico has more than 53,000 deaths shown by coronavirus, the 3rd worldwide after the United States and Brazil.
12:15 p.m. The French government is urging the local government to impose more mask needs and make the ban on giant meetings until October larger, such as viral infections again.
Prime Minister Jean Castex said the stage had been “moving in the wrong direction” for more than two weeks and warned that more difficult action is essential to prevent the virus from being worn and return to “major new containment.”
Interrupting his vacation, President Emmanuel Macron convened a special security meeting on Tuesday to discuss antivirus measures.
France reported that more than 10,000 new cases were shown last week. France has 30,300 virus-like deaths, the seventh largest in the world.
11:30 a.m. The number of COVID-19 cases reported in Quebec is less than one hundred at the time on a consecutive day.
Quebec reported 91 cases of the disease related to the new coronavirus and a death similar to COVID-19.
The province reported a total of 60,718 and 5,697 deaths attributed to the virus.
Hospitalizations have decreased in the last 24 hours, with 151 patients treated for the disease, a relief of six.
Of those patients, 21 are in intensive care, the same number as yesterday.
At 10:50 a.m., Ontario reported 33 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday.
That is the lowest number since March 18, a day after the province sank into a pandemic state of emergency that lasted until July 24.
No coronavirus deaths were reported for a consecutive day.
Health Minister Christine Elliott said Tuesday that the low number “includes cleaning up the regime’s knowledge through the Toronto Department of Public Health, which eliminated 21 cases, such as duplicates, that had already been included in the case count.”
Read Robert Benzie’s full story from The Star: Ontario reports 33 new COVID-19 cases, without new deaths
10:18 a.m. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar has renewed accusations that China did not warn about coronavirus after its first detection in Wuhan.
Azar says the ruling Communist Party in China “had the ability to warn the global and work with the global to fight the virus. But they chose not to, and the prices of that selection are expanding every day.”
The Trump administration has accused China of hiding data from the United Nations World Health Organization and the foreign network when the virus began to take hold.
China denies the accusation, saying it provided data as soon as it had it, the records seem to show that no new instances were compiled into a key assembly of the provincial legislature.
Since then, the United States has had to withdraw from WHO.
Azar said Beijing had lobbied to oppose research into the origins of the virus, as well as “absolute reforms to make WHO a more effective institution.”
Azar, el funcionario estadounidense de más alto rango en Taiwán desde la ruptura de las relaciones oficiales entre las partes en 1979, elogió la reacción de Taiwán al coronavirus.
10:18 A Swedish official said schools expect “a complicated autumn” as young people will return next week after the summer holidays.
Sweden opted for the technique of keeping much of society open in the spring when the coronavirus epidemic spread throughout Europe. Sweden has closed its schools.
Peter Fredriksson, director of the National Education Agency, says the school’s demanding situations remain the main ones and that this “applies to teachers and students.”
He says it’s up to local government and schools how to plan for the return.
The infection rate is falling in Sweden, which, according to the fitness government, is due to the voluntary adherence of citizens to social estrangement. Swedish rules state that other people will have to “stay away” from others in enclosed and outdoor places, such as shops, offices and museums. The use of a mask is also voluntary.
Sweden reported 4 new deaths on Tuesday, bringing the total death toll shown to 5770.
10:18 a.m. The Dutch Institute of Public Health reported 4036 new cases of coronavirus last week, a buildup of 1448 last week.
The institute says the deaths shown through COVID-19 have increased from nine to 6,159. The actual number of deaths is likely to be higher because not all other people who died from an alleged COVID-19 have been assessed.
The increases occur despite local projects to restrict infections, which have increased since the Dutch government eased lockout measures on July 1. The country’s two most populous cities, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, last week made the mask mandatory in the bustling streets and markets.
The percentage of other people who tested positive was also higher, from 2.3% last week to 3.6% in the last seven days.
10:18 a.m. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the government has discovered four cases of coronavirus in an Auckland outbreak from an unknown source, the first cases of transmission in the country in 102 days.
Ardern said Auckland, the country’s largest city, will move to alert spot 3 from noon on Wednesday, other people will be asked to stay home and many more businesses will be closed.
He said the rest of the country will rise to alert 2.
Health director Ashley Bloomfield said infections manifested after a 50-year-old user went to her doctor on Monday with symptoms and gave two positive results in both cases. Then six other people in the user’s family were tested, with 3 other positive results.
10:18 a.m. The number of new network infections reported in China fell to just thirteen on Tuesday, while Hong Kong’s semi-autonomous city experienced an additional drop to 69 new cases.
The mainland has also noticed 31 new cases brought by Chinese travelers arriving in 8 other provinces and cities. China is asking for tests and a two-week quarantine for all newcomers and has prevented the maximum number of foreigners from entering the country.
All new locally transmitted cases occurred in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, whose main city, Urumqi, is in the midst of the country’s last primary outbreak.
China reported a total of 4,634 COVID-19 deaths in 84,712 cases. Hong Kong has reduced the number of new cases since its last outbreak last month by making it mandatory to wear masks in public places and by tightening restrictions on social estrangement. The territory reported 4,148 cases and 55 deaths.
10:18 p.m. P-O Cruises, the UK’s largest cruise line, has delayed the restart of operations by a month to November.
He said this because of the British government’s resolve to advise others to avoid cruisers due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The crossings, which were scheduled to resume on October 15, were cancelled until November 12.
Two trips with longer itineraries were also suspended and were due to begin in January: Aurora’s Caribbean and South America Adventure and Arcadia’s World Cruise.
The industry faces a particularly dubious long-term after many passengers tested positive for the virus at the start of the pandemic in February and March.
10:18 a.m. Travelers from so-called at-risk countries will be assessed upon arrival in Finland after a giant organization of others arriving on a plane from northern Macedonia over the weekend tested positive for coronavirus.
Krista Kiuru, Finnish minister for the circle of family affairs and social services, said Monday night that the Nordic country would introduce mandatory control as soon as possible.
It’s not yet clear that they’ll make random patterns “or review everyone who crosses borders,” he said.
Mika Salminen of Finland’s National Institute of Health and Welfare said many of the world’s countries were at risk.
The tests will be carried out upon arrival from a country with more than 8 to 10 new COVID-19 instances consisting of 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days.
On Saturday, a plane from Skopje, Northern Macedonia, with 157 passengers, landed in Turku, western Finland, and 24 were tested in voluntary trials, the government said.
Salminen said that “overall, the stage is quiet in Finland.” The Nordic country recorded a total of 7,601 cases and 333 deaths.
10:18 a.m. The pakistani-making minister warns his countrymen that his “victory” against the coronavirus can be nullified if they stop adhering to social estrangement regulations.
Asad Umar on Tuesday praised others for their cooperation with the government since March, when a lockout was imposed amid a build-up of COVID-19 deaths and infections.
His caution comes a day after Pakistan eased almost all trade restrictions. Schools have still reopened.
It also comes a day after the new president of the United Nations General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir, a stopover in Islamabad, congratulating Pakistan on temporarily containing the coronavirus, saying that south Asian nation control of the pandemic was an example to others.
Pakistan reported its first case shown in February and experienced an increase in deaths and infections in June. Since then, there has been a steady decrease in the number of deaths.
On Tuesday, he reported 15 coronavirus deaths in more than 24 hours, bringing the total number of COVID-19-like deaths to 6112.
10:18 a.m. Indonesia has begun the third clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine in Bandung, West Java. Bio Farma, based in the state, leads the trial in partnership with Chinese coronavirus vaccine developer Sinovac Biotech.
Twenty volunteers were injected on Tuesday into the Faculty of Medicine of Padjadjaran University, in the presence of President Joko Widodo. The first and clinical stages were previously performed in China.
“We expect this third clinical trial to be completed in six months. I hope we can produce in January and, if production is ready, vaccinate everyone else in the country,” Widodo said.
A total of 120 volunteers will participate in the initial control group. The next one will take place in the 3rd and 4th week of this month and will have 144 volunteers. In early September, another 408 volunteers will get vaccination checks. Injection and follow-up of trial participants will run until the third week of December.
On Tuesday, Indonesia announced 1,693 new COVID-19 instances, bringing its showed total to 128,776. CoVID-19’s National Mitigation Task Group reported that another 59 people died in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 5,824.
10:18 a.m. India reported 53601 new coronavirus on Tuesday, with a total shown around 2.3 million.
The Health Ministry said the deaths had reached 45,257 deaths on Tuesday after 871 new deaths were recorded.
India has averaged around 50,000 new ones in line with the day since mid-June.
The Medical Research Council of India, India’s leading medical organization, said around 25 million tests had been conducted in India’s medical organization.
Health experts say the country wants to control more people given its higher population. India, a country of 1.4 billion, has carried out just under 18,000 controls corresponding to millions of people.
India has the third number of instances in the world after the United States and Brazil. It has the fifth death toll, but its mortality rate of about 2% is well below that of the two countries most affected.
9:55 a.m. Two ministers in the federal cupboard and the country’s top civil servant will rejoice in how a charity closely related to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ended up running a $912 million scholarship program.
The House of Commons Ethics Committee will hear Youth Minister Bardish Chagger, Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough and Ian Shugart, Secretary of the Privy Council.
The committee is reviewing existing safeguards to avoid conflicts of interest when the federal government makes a decision on how to spend taxpayers’ money.
But opposition MPs will surely focus more obviously on the government’s agreement with WE Charity to administer the grant program, which was designed to inspire academics to interact in summer volunteer paintings related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chagger to the blamed minister of the program, who has now been abandoned after getting bogged down in the controversy.
Qualtrough is guilty of the department, whose officials have concluded that they cannot turn over the program and that, according to the government, WE Charity has to be the only organization capable of delivering it.
Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau, who also has a close circle of family ties to WE Charity, are under investigation through the Federal Ethics Commissioner. Both apologized for not recusing when the Cabinet approved the agreement with the charity.
9:30 am on Tuesday, Russia has become the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine for use in tens of thousands of its citizens despite foreign skepticism about injections that have not completed clinical trials and have only been studied in dozens of other people. for less than two months.
President Vladimir Putin said in pronouncing the approval that one of his two adult daughters had already been vaccinated. He claimed that the vaccine had been tested and had been shown to have lasting immunity against coronavirus, the Russian government presented no evidence to support the claim of its protection or effectiveness.
“I know you’ve shown effective and strong immunity to bureaucracy,” he said. “We will have to be grateful to those who took this vital first step for our country and the world.”
However, scientists from Russia and other countries have sounded the alarm and said that rushing to offer the vaccine before phase 3 trials, which last months and involve tens of thousands of people, can be counterproductive.
“Accelerated approval will not make Russia the race leader (of the vaccine), it will only disclose to vaccine users about a hazard,” the Russian Association of Clinical Trial Organizations said Monday, urging government officials to postpone approval of the vaccine without completing it. . complex trials.
9:00 a.m. Another lawsuit filed against an operator of a long-term care home in Mississauga.
The wrongful and death lawsuit was filed through Viet Do and seeks $20 million from Schlegel Villages, claiming that the company failed to ensure the protection of citizens and staff at its Erin Mills Lodge facility during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Do’s father, Minh Do, 88, lived at Erin Mills Lodge from 2014 until his death on April 24, 2020, according to the lawsuit. His circle of relatives was reported that Minh Do had developed symptoms of COVID-19 on April 23, according to the Array.
The assertion, which has not been proven in court, alleges that Schlegel did not comply with the rules issued through the provincial and aptitude authorities, adding that the UNinsured persons of COVID-19 were not identified and that it did not supply the public protection equipment.” Timely. »
“When provided, Erin Mills Lodge ordered the same non-public protective device to be used at various events, despite the contamination,” the complaint alleges.
8 a.m. The Blue Jays will play their first game in Buffalo, New York, Tuesday night when they open a two-game series against the Miami Marlins at Sahlen Field.
The Blue Jays were baseball nomads to start the season after the federal government denied them permission to play at Toronto’s Rogers Centre due to considerations of players traveling in and out of the country from U.S. states devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
After the stadium-sharing agreements with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles failed to materialize, the Blue Jays moved to Sahlen’s box as the basis for the shortened 2020 season.
But the home of Toronto’s triple-A affiliate, the Buffalo Bisons, needed innovations before being in a position for the primary leagues, meaning the Blue Jays had to play their home games at their opponent’s stadium to this day.
Toronto starts its first home game with a 5-8 record.
7:19 a.m. The City of Vaughan told York Region Media that it “temporarily” laid off about 1,100 employees due to “shortage of work in some departments” after declaring a state of emergency due to COVID-19.
After these “extraordinary circumstances,” the City said the decision was “difficult but necessary.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic and declared State of Emergency in Vaughan and the Province of Ontario have impacted City services in a number of unexpected ways, including the temporary closure of City facilities to the public and the cancellation of some programs,” it said.
While the City continues to conduct essential services including fire and emergency response, waste collection, water/wastewater services, to bylaw and enforcement services, it says, “As this situation evolves, it will be necessary for the City to continue assessing the operational and financial impacts of these unprecedented times.”
7:16 a.m. Three separate employees at a Mississauga Longo’s grocery store have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Longo’s store tracker.
Management at Longo’s became aware that three employees at their Ponytrail location, on Rathburn Road, had tested positive on Aug. 8.
The employees’ last days of work were Aug. 4, 5 and 6. Each store undergoes a deep cleaning and sanitization once a Longo’s employee contracts the disease.
All employees who may have been in contact with the sick workers have been instructed to stay home and monitor their health for any symptoms. Longo’s claims they pay each employee in full during this time.
Their tracker states that it is not necessary for shoppers who recently visited the Ponytrail location to self-isolate, taking advice from public health officials.
5:46 a.m. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday that authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the first cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days.
Ardern said Auckland, the nation’s largest city, will be moved to Level 3 from midday Wednesday, meaning that people will be asked to stay at home and bars and many other businesses will be closed.
She said the rest of the country will be raised to Level 2.
3:06 a.m. The number of coronavirus cases topped 20 million on Tuesday, more than half of them from the U.S., India and Brazil.
Health officials believe the actual number is much higher than that tally kept by Johns Hopkins University, given testing limitations and the fact that as many as 40 per cent of those who are infected have no symptoms.
It took six months or so to get to 10 million cases after the virus first appeared in central China late last year. It took just over six weeks for that number to double.
An AP analysis of data through Aug. 9 showed the U.S., India and Brazil together accounted for nearly two-thirds of all reported infections since the world hit 15 million coronavirus cases on July 22.
Tuesday 3:02 a.m. India reported 53,601 new cases of coronavirus Tuesday as its total infections neared 2.3 million.
The Health Ministry also said 871 deaths were newly reported, raising total fatalities to 45,257.
India has been posting an average of around 50,000 new cases a day since mid-June.
Its total infections are third in the world, behind the United States and Brazil. The three countries account for half of the world’s 20 million cases. The true numbers around the world are thought to be much higher because of factors including low testing and the possibility the virus can be spread by people who don’t have symptoms.
Monday 6:15 p.m. Only two theatres, two drive-ins and an open-air cinema will physically show movies during the Toronto International Film Festival.
The festival announced the limited venues on Monday, which include the TIFF Bell Lightbox, the Isabel Bader Theatre, the Visa Skyline Drive-In at CityView, the RBC Lakeside Drive-In at Ontario Place and the West Island Open Air Cinema at Ontario Place.
TIFF says most festival selections this year will be screened online via its Bell Digital Cinema.
In keeping with physical distancing measures required due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there will be reduced capacity at the Lightbox cinemas, the Isabel Bader and the outdoor screens.
But TIFF says even the online screenings will have limits.
The digital screenings are geoblocked to Canada and will be viewable on home TV screens using Chromecast or a new TIFF app, which will be available in the Apple App Store on Sept. 9. Digital movies will be watermarked, either “forensically” or visibly, to prevent piracy, the festival says.
five: five at 4 p.m. Starting at 5pm. On Monday, Ontario Regional Health Offices reported a total of 42,224 cases shown or likely of COVID-19, 2,824 deaths, according to Star’s most recent count.
Accumulation throughout the province in more than 24 hours, with 133 infections reported, the largest accumulation in a day from beyond July.
Daily case reports have been declining since the province peaked in arrears last month and had been at its lowest rate of new infections since before the pandemic peaked in Ontario in the spring.
That rate rose on Monday, reaching an average of 95 instances per day for more than seven days, still well below the peak of nearly six hundred instances in mid-April.
The day saw double-digit instances in Ottawa, with 20 new instances, Toronto (18 instances), Peel, Windsor-Essex, and Chatham-Kent (all instances) and Hamilton (10 instances).
Many Ontario fitness teams don’t provide case information on weekends, which means Mondays can see more cases than usual.
Meanwhile, the province did not report any new fatalities on Monday.
The vast majority of COVID-19 patients in the province have recovered; the province has fewer than 4,000 disease assets.
The Star count includes some patients reported as cases of COVID-19 with “maximum probability,” meaning they have symptoms and contacts or background that imply that the maximum probability has the disease but have not yet gained a positive laboratory test.
The province warns that its separate data, which are published daily at 10:30 a.m., may be incomplete or replaced due to delays in the reporting system, stating that in case of discrepancy, “data reported through (health units) should be considered as the maximum updated”.
Monday: Toronto is more than two weeks away from Stage 3, and appears to have continued an increasingly declining trend in COVID-19 numbers.
Across Ontario, new reports of the new coronavirus have slowed, meaning that the besieged Windsor-Essex region can nevertheless succeed in the rest of the province in Stage 3. The province may also simply revel in a “basement” in some cases, one said the epidemiologist, meaning that while we could not achieve a drop in cases, we could probably be expecting an increase in the fall.
The Star asked two infectious disease experts, Anna Banerji of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Raywat Deonandan of the University of Ottawa, to assess Star’s knowledge of the state of the COVID-19 crisis in Ontario. Read more about journalist Jenna Moon here.
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